Thomas Jefferson actually said...

I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.

I have suppressed in the documents of the other message the parts which ought not to be made public and have given them in the supplementary...

Besides the advantage of placing it under the immediate eye of the Government, it may render its benefits common to the Naval Department, an...

The scale on which the Military Academy at West Point was originally established is become too limited to furnish the number of well-instruc...